Childminder in Greenwich

Inspection date

Previous inspection date 3 March 2016 Not applicable

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Effectiveness of the leadership and management Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Quality of teaching, learning and assessment Outstanding 1

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This inspection: Outstanding 1

Personal development, behaviour and welfare Outstanding 1

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This provision is outstanding

 The childminder is a highly ambitious and enthusiastic leader. She takes every opportunity to share her excellent knowledge with her assistants and monitors their work rigorously to ensure they meet her very high expectations. They work as an exceptional team to provide rich experiences that motivate children to learn.  The childminder works extremely well with parents, children and other professionals to evaluate her practice, target areas for improvement and take swift action to sustain the highest quality of provision.  The childminder and her assistant fire children's enthusiasm for learning. They listen and respond skilfully to children's ideas, providing exactly the right level of challenge to maintain children's interest and engagement and to develop their thinking further.  The childminder makes sharply focused observations of what children know, understand and can do. She is adept at gathering information from other providers to

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This provision is outstanding

build a full and thorough story of children's learning. She monitors children's development meticulously and identifies precisely what they need to do next to continue to flourish and make rapid progress.  Children's well-being is enhanced significantly through the warm and close attachments they build with the childminder and her assistants. All adults use praise and encouragement to excellent effect to nurture children's self-esteem and confidence.

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

To further improve the quality of the early years provision the provider should:

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What the setting needs to do to improve further

 build further on the highly effective process of assessing and monitoring children's development by enhancing opportunities to encourage parents to extend the information they share about their children's achievements at home.

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Inspection activities

 The inspector observed the childminder and her assistant interacting with children during play and planned activities.  The inspector gained written and verbal views from parents regarding aspects of the childminder's practice.  The inspector viewed all areas of the provision used by the children, including the inside and outside spaces.  The inspector viewed relevant documentation, including children's developmental records.  The inspector discussed with the childminder aspects of her practice.

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Effectiveness of the leadership and management is outstanding

The childminder is an excellent leader who drives continuous improvement. She is well qualified and maintains highly successful links with other professionals to enhance her practice further, and to support the professional development of her assistants. Safeguarding is effective. The childminder has an excellent understanding of her role in ensuring that children's welfare is protected. She reviews her provision extremely well. Children's views are highly valued and influence significantly the decisions she makes about changes that affect their learning and care. The childminder knows what works well and targets precise areas for improvement. For example, she added wet weather clothing and created an outdoor playroom to enhance further the positive benefits that she found children gained from learning outdoors throughout the year.

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Quality of teaching, learning and assessment is outstanding

The childminder is highly skilled in adapting the environment to precisely meet the learning needs of the children. She and her assistants make excellent use of an abundance of resources and extremely well planned activities to ensure that all children have fun as they join in activities which match their interests and extend their learning. For example, while older children recreated a well-known story in a puppet show, younger children were engaged in a simple puppet show based on their own ideas. Parents are exceptionally well informed about their children's progress. The childminder plans to enhance the excellent partnership with parents to broaden the information they share about their children's achievements at home; to fully embed the joint approach to promoting children's learning.

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Personal development, behaviour and welfare are outstanding

Children's welfare and safety are at the heart of the childminder's work. Children have limitless support, perfectly matched to their needs, to help them to explore their surroundings confidently, tackle challenges and learn to manage risks. The childminder fosters children's self-care skills and independence exceptionally well from the start. Everyone working with the children reinforces positive behaviour at all times. Children are highly cooperative and work extremely well together. Older children show an excellent understanding of the needs of their younger friends. For example, without prompting, they sensitively helped to prepare their shoes to go outdoors and carefully arranged seating for a puppet show, explaining that smaller children needed a clear view.

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Outcomes for children are outstanding

Children of all ages make excellent progress from their starting points. They are confident, persevere with challenges and are eager to learn. All children develop key skills they need to support their next stage of learning and future move to school.

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Setting details

Unique reference number EY452562 Local authority Medway Towns Inspection number 1003717 Type of provision Childminder Day care type Childminder Registers Early Years Register, Compulsory Childcare Register, Voluntary Childcare Register Age range of children 0 - 8 Total number of places 10 Number of children on roll 20

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Name of provider

Date of previous inspection Not applicable

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Telephone number

The childminder registered in 2012. She lives in Gillingham, Kent. The childminder offers care Monday to Friday from 7am to 7pm, all year except family holidays. The childminder works with assistants to offer a flexible service. The childminder holds an appropriate early years qualification at level 3. The childminder receives funding to provide free early education to children aged two, three and four years.

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Telephone number

This inspection was carried out by Ofsted under sections 49 and 50 of the Childcare Act 2006 on the quality and standards of provision that is registered on the Early Years Register. The registered person must ensure that this provision complies with the statutory framework for children’s learning, development and care, known as the Early Years Foundation Stage.

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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Telephone number

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